Sterling K. Brown Quotes

I never did pageants as a kid, but when I got into high school, I did a couple that were tied to a sort of all-around academic student achievement program, something akin to Junior Miss, but not Junior Miss.

While I was in school, a local magazine picked the 10 best students, and they picked me and profiled me in the magazine.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form.

I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

I had full rank scholarship to the University of Michigan, which anybody in the north will tell you, I don't know anyone that has had that at the University of Michigan, which tells you that I was a stand up student.

As someone who went to school in the '70s and '80s, I can't say that I noticed much of a 'medals for all' culture myself.

I don't know what it is that I love so much about high school, but I'm attached. The empty hallways. The teachers. They made me feel so much.

I was a member of the Fab Five at the University of Michigan, but I was also on the Dean's List there. I took pride in my education.

I was going to college on a full scholarship. I graduated summa cum laude. I was always on the dean's list. I was never a kid that started any kind of trouble.

Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.

I wanted to do my doctorate. I got honorary doctorates which made me feel very fulfilled.

Call me old-fashioned, but it's always been my firm belief that a teacher's job should be for each of his or her students to finish the year with a grade of 100%.

I've not seen my two girls play high school sports.

Little old University of Houston jumping up, swinging with the big boys, and that's something to take pride in. I'm happy for our fans, I'm happy for our alumni, but more importantly, I'm happy for our players.

I was fortunate and worked hard to graduate top of my class as a primary school teacher and receive the Vere Foster Award, which is the medal given to the graduate who attains the highest mark in teaching practice.

When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

In school, I was good in academics and extracurricular activities. I even topped the state in French in my Std 12 exams.

I'm trying to see, in high school or college, I've never been like, 'Rah! Rah!' kind of guy. It's always been just, 'All right.'

I worked as an intern. I worked at a high school. I worked at a college newspaper while I was taking 18 credits while on the basketball team.